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This collection of files replicates tables and figures in the paper:
"Elite Persistence in the Era of England's Overseas Trade" published in
the journal Comparative Political Studies (accepted 2025).

Program: The paper's tables and figures were created in Stata 18 and also
shown to replicate in Stata 19.  Details below.

  StataNow/MP 19.5 for Mac (Apple Silicon)
  Revision 16 Apr 2025
  Copyright 1985-2025 StataCorp LLC

  StataNow/MP 18.5 for Mac (Apple Silicon)
  Revision 26 Feb 2025
  Copyright 1985-2023 StataCorp LLC

Each .do file in the replication code folder creates the table/figure
numbers/letters that the file is named with.

Each file reads in a Stata .dta file (all needed .dta files are in the input
folder and outputs tables and figures to an output folder.

In addition to having the proper program and version of the program, you must
properly set your "input" and "output" directories in each .do file.  To do this,
open a given .do file and enclose the path to the .dta file you wish to read in
within the quotation marks that follow the "input = " line towards the top of the
.do file.  Do the same the directory that you wish to output your files to.

A copy of each table and figure produced by Stata is included in the "output"
folder included with this replication folder.  If you wish to output the tables
and figures that you create to the same folder, use that directory.  The .do
files will overwrite a new version of the file into the folder.  Otherwise,
you may name another folder directory.

For details on the data sources and measurement, please refer to the
paper text.  A pre-published version is available at:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4721401

Other inquiries can be directed to adriane@adrianefresh.com.


        -- Created June 2, 2025 (v1)
        (Adriane Fresh, Duke University)
